Sentence examples for Very scant from inspiring English sources

"The U.S. government had a very scant case.

Distract myself into the very scant notes for another novel I have on a sheet of paper on the desk.

Though these churches developed an extensive body of canon law throughout their histories, Western knowledge of their canon law has been very scant.

There were loads of layers – we counted about 15 – and a very scant amount of béchamel and meat ragu, but just the right amount.

Ms. Sandweiss constructs the life of the heretofore unknown young Ada, extrapolating from very scant evidence to create a remarkably solid portrait.

Though Mr. Tonko said that he would make every effort to review the governor's bill, he added that it was "leaving us very scant few days".

Fears of tighter credit in China weighed on stockmarkets this week but the signs still point to very gradual tightening and scant dampening of growth in China and the rest of the emerging world.Powerful structural factors will continue to reinforce the relative strength of the emerging world.

His status as a populist frontman for science followed on from his 2003 book, A Short History of Nearly Everything in which he roamed – "always at the very edge of my scant knowledge" – across many scientific questions from the big bang onwards.

The evidence was determined by sexism and character assassination; the court very clearly twisted the scant information they had to fit their theory of the girl they hated.

However, support for the role of the intrinsic pathway is scant, although very convincing.

In addition, Hispanic women consider that breast cancer is a severe illness; however, their own perceived susceptibility to the illness is very low and find scant benefit in regular mammography screening [ 20].